C Rowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4162833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Rowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowell |
| SIGNATURE | ROWELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lithuanian Institute of History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0406-6838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Illustrissime Princeps, Episcope Reverendissime
From childhood, the son of Sigismund the Old and Catherine Telniczanka, John of the Lithuanian Dukes (1499-1538), knew he was a prince, and so did his contemporaries. However, maintaining a princely estate does not come cheaply. The aim of this article is not to examine in detail the financial records of this princely cleric, for such documents no longer exist, nor shall we speak in general of the official income of the bishops of Vilnius; rather…
Whatever Kind of Pagan the Bearer Might be, The Letter is Valid. A Sketch of Catholicorthodox Relations in the Late-Mediaeval Grand Duchy of Lithuania
This article examines relationships between Catholic and Orthodox Christians in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It stresses the robust policies of Catholic and Orthodox prelates and nobles towards one another and especially towards the Unionist Ruthenians, who sought to maintain their liturgical and hierarchical identity while recognising the primacy of the bishop of Rome. By contrast in personal…
The Role of Charitable Activity in the Formation of Vilnius Society in the 14th to mid-16th Centuries
This article examines the development of charitable activity in the city of Vilnius and elsewhere in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the middle of the sixteenth century by studying the foundation of almshouses to care for the poor and destitute and foster the memory and salvation of pious benefactors. Almshouse foundations developed from increasing forms of practical piety within the GDL from the late fifteenth century, following earlier west…
Vernacular Translations of Scripture in England and Lithuania before the 17th Century
This article gives a general survey of the development of a need among Lithuanian Catholics at the end of the fifteenth century for access to religious literature and especially Scripture in the vernacular (for sake of convenience, in Ruthenian translation). The work of Francis Skorina is examined in this context as a distant forerunner of Chylinski’s first published translation of the Bible into Lithuanian. The development of vernacular translat…
The Thousandth Anniversary of the First Surviving Written Record of the Toponym Lithuania, 1009–2009
Conflict Resolution in Fifteenth-Century Lithuania as Exemplified by Injured Merchants and Felonous Clerks
This article examines briefly the resolution of conflicts within two separate mediaeval social groups, namely the merchant communities of Gdansk, Vilnius and Kaunas during the first seven years of Casimir l and IV's reign in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Roman Catholic clergy of the dioceses of Vilnius and Žemaitija involved in criminal cases reviewed by the Papal Curia. Attention is paid to the importance of social concepts such as frien…
The Joyous Entry of Casimir I and IV into Lithuanian and Polish Cities
This article uses published and unpublished material to examine the entry of Casimir Jagiellończyk into various towns in Poland and Lithuania. Royal entry ceremonial demonstrated the social contract between the lord and his subjects: his legitimate and accepted position as dominus naturalis, his respect for his subjects’ liberties, and in return his subjects’ loyalty to their prince and acceptance of his legitimacy. There is a general format to e…
The Marriage of Jogaila and Jadwiga Embodies The Union of Lithuania and Poland
We Wlodko, lieutenant of Lublin, Piotr Szafraniec, sub-steward of Cracow, Mikołaj castellan of Zawichosc, and Krystyn warden of Kazimierz, make known to all those who examine these presents that on the Thursday within the octave of the Epiphany of the Lord in the year of that same Lord 1386 we came before the most victorious prince, Jogaila, by the Grace of God Supreme Duke of the Lithuanians and Heir to Rus', with a delegation of noblemen, digni…
The Jagiellonians and the Stars
Mediaeval scholars attempted to fit received data and information from empirical observation into a pre-ordained model of the universe. Astrology was, and in many cases still is, a form of applied astronomy held by its adherents to be verifiable by events, that is, history. Drawing connections between celestial coincidences and events known to have happened under such circumstances in the past seemed to offer a possibility for predicting types of…
Historiographical Review
Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union and Swedish socialism the Baltic region has attracted more attention, although not perhaps as much as it might deserve, than since the 1930s. English-speaking readers have been presented with a magisterial survey of the northern world over a five hundred years' period. However, many of the old stereotypes of war, pestilence, and the rise of Sweden under Gustav Adolphus, the lion of the north, and of Russia …
Dynastic Bluff? The Road to Mielnik, 1385–1501
This article views the act of Union issued at Mielnik in 1501 in the longue durée of Lithuano-Polish relations from 1385/86. It stresses the need to treat the dynastic aims of Jogaila and his son Casimir seriously, regarding the thrones of Lithuania and Poland within the context of developments in family law and inheritance in the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom in the fifteenth century. Textual echoes are noted between a ‘union’ agreement outlined c…
Casimir Jagiellończyk and the Polish Gamble, 1445-7
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access S. C. ROWELL S. C. ROWELL KlaipėdaLithuania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Page 971, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.971 Published: 01 September 1998
Bears and Traitors, or
Unexpected Contacts
Journal Article Unexpected Contacts: Lithuanians at Western Courts, c. 1316–c. 1400 Get access S. C. ROWELL S. C. ROWELL Klaipeda, Lithuania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 557–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.557 Published: 01 June 1996
Forging a Union? Some Reflections on the Early Jagiellonian Monarchy
No longer all at sea? English Baltic studies
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Of men and monsters
(1993). Of men and monsters: Sources for the history of Lithuania in the time of Gediminas (ca. 1315–1342) Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 73-112
A pagan's word
This short paper seeks to illustrate how the last pagan rulers in Europe, the grand dukes of Lithuania conducted their extensive diplomatic relations with their Christian neighbours. The Lithuanians fit into a long tradition of Christian dealings with pagans and show a willingness to adapt their manner of upholding international agreements in accordance with the practices of their partners. It highlights an hitherto ignored note on pagan Lithuani…
Lithuania and the West, 1337–41—A question of sources
The Jagiellonians and the Stars
Mediaeval scholars attempted to fit received data and information from empirical observation into a pre-ordained model of the universe. Astrology was, and in many cases still is, a form of applied astronomy held by its adherents to be verifiable by events, that is, history. Drawing connections between celestial coincidences and events known to have happened under such circumstances in the past seemed to offer a possibility for predicting types of…
Bears and Traitors, or
Unexpected Contacts
Journal Article Unexpected Contacts: Lithuanians at Western Courts, c. 1316–c. 1400 Get access S. C. ROWELL S. C. ROWELL Klaipeda, Lithuania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 557–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.557 Published: 01 June 1996
Lithuania and the West, 1337–41—A question of sources
Lithuania and the West, 1337–41—A question of sources
A pagan's word
This short paper seeks to illustrate how the last pagan rulers in Europe, the grand dukes of Lithuania conducted their extensive diplomatic relations with their Christian neighbours. The Lithuanians fit into a long tradition of Christian dealings with pagans and show a willingness to adapt their manner of upholding international agreements in accordance with the practices of their partners. It highlights an hitherto ignored note on pagan Lithuani…
Of men and monsters
(1993). Of men and monsters: Sources for the history of Lithuania in the time of Gediminas (ca. 1315–1342) Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 73-112
No longer all at sea? English Baltic studies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Unexpected Contacts
Journal Article Unexpected Contacts: Lithuanians at Western Courts, c. 1316–c. 1400 Get access S. C. ROWELL S. C. ROWELL Klaipeda, Lithuania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 557–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.557 Published: 01 June 1996
Forging a Union? Some Reflections on the Early Jagiellonian Monarchy
Bears and Traitors, or
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access S. C. ROWELL S. C. ROWELL KlaipėdaLithuania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Page 971, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.971 Published: 01 September 1998
Casimir Jagiellończyk and the Polish Gamble, 1445-7
Historiographical Review
Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union and Swedish socialism the Baltic region has attracted more attention, although not perhaps as much as it might deserve, than since the 1930s. English-speaking readers have been presented with a magisterial survey of the northern world over a five hundred years' period. However, many of the old stereotypes of war, pestilence, and the rise of Sweden under Gustav Adolphus, the lion of the north, and of Russia …
Dynastic Bluff? The Road to Mielnik, 1385–1501
This article views the act of Union issued at Mielnik in 1501 in the longue durée of Lithuano-Polish relations from 1385/86. It stresses the need to treat the dynastic aims of Jogaila and his son Casimir seriously, regarding the thrones of Lithuania and Poland within the context of developments in family law and inheritance in the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom in the fifteenth century. Textual echoes are noted between a ‘union’ agreement outlined c…
The Jagiellonians and the Stars
Mediaeval scholars attempted to fit received data and information from empirical observation into a pre-ordained model of the universe. Astrology was, and in many cases still is, a form of applied astronomy held by its adherents to be verifiable by events, that is, history. Drawing connections between celestial coincidences and events known to have happened under such circumstances in the past seemed to offer a possibility for predicting types of…
The Joyous Entry of Casimir I and IV into Lithuanian and Polish Cities
This article uses published and unpublished material to examine the entry of Casimir Jagiellończyk into various towns in Poland and Lithuania. Royal entry ceremonial demonstrated the social contract between the lord and his subjects: his legitimate and accepted position as dominus naturalis, his respect for his subjects’ liberties, and in return his subjects’ loyalty to their prince and acceptance of his legitimacy. There is a general format to e…
The Marriage of Jogaila and Jadwiga Embodies The Union of Lithuania and Poland
We Wlodko, lieutenant of Lublin, Piotr Szafraniec, sub-steward of Cracow, Mikołaj castellan of Zawichosc, and Krystyn warden of Kazimierz, make known to all those who examine these presents that on the Thursday within the octave of the Epiphany of the Lord in the year of that same Lord 1386 we came before the most victorious prince, Jogaila, by the Grace of God Supreme Duke of the Lithuanians and Heir to Rus', with a delegation of noblemen, digni…
Conflict Resolution in Fifteenth-Century Lithuania as Exemplified by Injured Merchants and Felonous Clerks
This article examines briefly the resolution of conflicts within two separate mediaeval social groups, namely the merchant communities of Gdansk, Vilnius and Kaunas during the first seven years of Casimir l and IV's reign in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Roman Catholic clergy of the dioceses of Vilnius and Žemaitija involved in criminal cases reviewed by the Papal Curia. Attention is paid to the importance of social concepts such as frien…
The Thousandth Anniversary of the First Surviving Written Record of the Toponym Lithuania, 1009–2009
Vernacular Translations of Scripture in England and Lithuania before the 17th Century
This article gives a general survey of the development of a need among Lithuanian Catholics at the end of the fifteenth century for access to religious literature and especially Scripture in the vernacular (for sake of convenience, in Ruthenian translation). The work of Francis Skorina is examined in this context as a distant forerunner of Chylinski’s first published translation of the Bible into Lithuanian. The development of vernacular translat…
The Role of Charitable Activity in the Formation of Vilnius Society in the 14th to mid-16th Centuries
This article examines the development of charitable activity in the city of Vilnius and elsewhere in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the middle of the sixteenth century by studying the foundation of almshouses to care for the poor and destitute and foster the memory and salvation of pious benefactors. Almshouse foundations developed from increasing forms of practical piety within the GDL from the late fifteenth century, following earlier west…
Whatever Kind of Pagan the Bearer Might be, The Letter is Valid. A Sketch of Catholicorthodox Relations in the Late-Mediaeval Grand Duchy of Lithuania
This article examines relationships between Catholic and Orthodox Christians in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It stresses the robust policies of Catholic and Orthodox prelates and nobles towards one another and especially towards the Unionist Ruthenians, who sought to maintain their liturgical and hierarchical identity while recognising the primacy of the bishop of Rome. By contrast in personal…
Illustrissime Princeps, Episcope Reverendissime
From childhood, the son of Sigismund the Old and Catherine Telniczanka, John of the Lithuanian Dukes (1499-1538), knew he was a prince, and so did his contemporaries. However, maintaining a princely estate does not come cheaply. The aim of this article is not to examine in detail the financial records of this princely cleric, for such documents no longer exist, nor shall we speak in general of the official income of the bishops of Vilnius; rather…
History (15 works) · History (13 works) · Medieval European History and Architecture (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)